GARDEN FEATURE AT NGR SJ 41366 34472

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ELLESMERE RURAL C.P. OTELEY Garden feature at N.G.R. SJ 41366 34472

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Garden feature of uncertain function. Circa 1826 to 1842 for Charles Kynaston Mainwaring. Yellow sandstone ashlar and snecked rock-faced sandstone. In 2 sections, upper consisting of rectangular bastion with corbelled parapet, lower a buttressed revetment wall with coped parapet, some dislodged and lying on ground at time of resurvey (February 1987). Infilled Tudor arch to front of bastion. Charles Kynaston Mainwaring was a keen amateur gardener and he travelled extensively on the continent. It is believed that he was personally responsible for much of the design of the garden and park at Oteley and for the features therein. His house, Oteley Park, built for him in an Elizabethan style on the site of an earlier building between 1826 and 1830 and extended in 1842 was demolished c.1960. B.O.E. p. 226; Peter Reid, Burke's and Savills Guide to Country Houses, Vol. II (1980),pp.106-7; Francis Leach, The Country Seats of Shropshire (1891), pp. 19-23; Mrs. Frances Stackhouse Acton, Castles and Old Mansions of Shropshire (1868), p.58.

Listing NGR: SJ4136934475